New Figure: Thomas Mann

[JLMatterer]

Thomas Mann soon as a Playmobil figure
Status: October 18, 2024, 12:01 p.m.

The writer Thomas Mann is to be released as a Playmobil figure next year.

The publisher S. Fischer announced that the figure would be produced in a limited collector's edition to mark the writer's 150th birthday. In the past, Goethe and Schiller had already become Playmobil figures.

The publisher has already revealed that the man figure will be wearing a hat and a light suit and will be reading the novel "The Buddenbrooks". Thomas Mann was born on June 6, 1875. He is one of the most important German writers.

[JLMatterer]

Thomas Mann becomes a Playmobil figure – for his 150th birthday next year
KNA
October 18, 2024 5:26 a.m.

Martin Luther is one of the most successful Playmobil figures of all time – will the reformer soon be replaced by a famous writer? To mark his 150th birthday, Thomas Mann is also being ennobled as a toy figure.

Thomas Mann will not only be celebrated in his hometown of Lübeck next year: There will also be a Playmobil figure to mark the writer's 150th birthday, as the publisher S. Fischer announced on Friday. After Goethe and Schiller, the author will be released in a limited collector's edition.

The actual figure is still being worked on. However, the publisher revealed that she will be wearing a hat and a light suit. “Of course” she will be reading Mann’s most famous book: his first novel “The Buddenbrooks”.

Born on June 6, 1875, Thomas Mann is one of the most important German writers. His stories such as “Death in Venice” are still read in schools today. In 1929, the author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. When the National Socialists seized power, Mann left his homeland for Switzerland and later for the USA; he died on August 12, 1955 in Zurich.

A ceremony is planned in the Hanseatic city on the actual birthday, and from the following day the exhibition "My Time. Thomas Mann and Democracy" will be on display in the local St. Anne's Museum. An exhibition about "The Magic Mountain" is currently running there, the 100th anniversary of its publication on November 28th this year. A Thomas Mann Festival is planned in Nida, Lithuania in July 2025.

[GrahamB]

The 1971 film of 'Death in Venice' is one of the dullest I have ever seen, saved only by the soundtrack which features (several times) the sublime Adagietto from Mahler's fifth symphony, but then I have been accused in the past of expecting films to be entertaining. Apart from that, to me Thomas Mann is another obscure German!

[playmofire]

I wonder why Playmobil don't go more for characters of authors rather than the authors themselves?

[Macruran]

Interesting, might have to spring for one of these. I read The Magic Mountain when I was but a stripling and many scenes and characters are still vivid in my mind.  On the other hand it will suffer from the utter nondescriptness of Mann himself (the man himself). That is to say, Mann has no immediately recognizable visual identity the way Luther or Goethe do, so he will be just a Victorian extra.

I wonder why Playmobil don't go more for characters of authors rather than the authors themselves?

Por que no los dos? Come out with Mann, plus a handful of Buddenbrooks characters to be collected in a set. And of course there are plenty of out of copyright works rich for exploitation. Series of Round Table knights, anyone? 

[Klickteryx]

I wonder why Playmobil don't go more for characters of authors rather than the authors themselves?

I believe the point is to honour/highlight various historic figures with these sets.

[Oliver]

I wonder why Playmobil don't go more for characters of authors rather than the authors themselves?

I suppose it also depends on the writer in question - for example, with Dickens you could probably make some recognisable characters in Klicky form, but what would be the difference between a figure of Jane Austen and a figure of one of her heroines?

[playmofire]

I suppose it also depends on the writer in question - for example, with Dickens you could probably make some recognisable characters in Klicky form, but what would be the difference between a figure of Jane Austen and a figure of one of her heroines?

Yes, but Jane Austen etc have more than heroines, there are also heroes and "baddies" and supporting characters.

If they come up with a figure like this picture of Mann, it might be a winner, although I note it is a limited edition figure:

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/german-novelist-and-essayist-thomas-mann-in-his-study-news-photo/541530423?adppopup=true

[playmofire]

Mis-post, please ignore.

[Rasputin]

A man in a suit holding a book with limited production and distribution for many euros + shipping

Hmmmm

Meanwhile , have you seen Lego new adult sets at Costco or Amazon